The interior space from which we do what we do is far more significant than what we do and how we do it.

In response to a remark I made today in another Appreciative Leadership workshop - that relationships thrive when both people build them on a foundation of self-care - my friend/co-author Lois mused again that when it comes to thriving relationships, two halves (people lacking self-care wholeness) don’t make a whole.

It’s a good thing to get over the echo effect of negative emotions … where we become afraid of fear, angry about our anger, bored with our boredom, tired of being tired, unhappy with our unhappiness. The only way out is simply allowing without resistance that which is. Then with the space we create, dense negative energies dissipate and allow our naturally happy state to shine through - instead of reveberating in an endless spiral of echoing repetition.

Your entire worldview is based on how much respect you have for yourself. / Wayne Dyer, The Power of Intention

Our friends keep our hearts alive …. they are the music that makes life sing. We do well to rarely take them for granted.

According to Scott Smith of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (source: NY Times), traditional habitats feature “niches” which result in saturation of species, as well as extinctions and relationship disruption when new species migrate into it.

The Panama Canal habitat instead features a “neutral” community model where, because local species are not so precisely situated into niches, new species can find a home, and instead of new species invasions causing extinctions, the migration of new species actually add to the community’s richness and sustainability.

In the Appreciative Leadership workshop I did yesterday, one of the eye-openers was the notion that we need to dream as big as our imaginations can …

Every gun that is made, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. / Dwight Eisenhower

It’s a good day when we realize that the love we have inside us and the love we seek outside us is the same energy field whose source is infinite.

From this morning’s NY Times: In an experiment with super-cooled helium, researchers at Penn State say they have found that as a solid ring spins around, part of it can remain perfectly still… In quantum mechanics, a helium atom is not a discreet object, but a fuzzy blur of possibilities.